The Kansas Professional Communicators selected the two columns:
   
   
   "Lift the notes off the page!" and Footnote to History
   
   
   for its Honorable Mention award.
   
   
   Judges' comments included:
   
   
   
   'Notes' was a nice piece to praise the joy of music, which you did.
   
   
   'Footnote' had some remarkable photos. Great column idea, too, preserving and explaining a past that will be lost 
unless we chronicle it. I wanted more Uncle Stan and less general history."